In an essay in the current issue of JQR, Magdaléna Jánošíková and Iris Idelson-Shein explore new territory in the landscape of early modern Yiddish writing.

JQR 113.3 is now available, online and in print. 

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Barry Wimpfheimer shows that the Mishnah stacks legal couplets like building blocks to produce ever-richer conceptual understandings and train the reader to mine it for such meaning.

JQR 113.1 is now available, online* and in print. 

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JQR 112.4 is now available, online* and in print. 

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JQR 112.3 is now available, online* and in print. 

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JQR 112.2 is now available, online* and in print. 

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JQR 112.1 is now available, online* and in print. 

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Simcha Gross and Avigail Manekin-Bamberger introduce Aramaic incantation bowls that draw on rabbinic and elite literary sources, forcing a reevaluation of the “popular” religion traditionally ascribed to the bowls.

JQR 111.4 is now available, online* and in print. 

In this issue:

Hair Dye

Wet Cat food

Bra, tights

Vodka

Each year, the Katz Center offers a lineup of public programs to share the fruits of scholarly research with wider audiences. Open to everyone, these lectures feature current fellows along with colleagues from across the field talking about new and critical issues in Jewish studies.